In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

I found you can believe the man in history that is Jesus who walked the earth. It's a whole different thing altogether to know Him as the Son of God - to have reconciled yourself to Almighty God.

I got an apartment for my family so they can move out of this one-room that they were renting out from a family.

I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.